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4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)

Angie Westbrock

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Standard Cognition has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Standard Cognition employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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40 reviews
2.0
Apr 24, 2022

Not a Great Time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Teammates were friendly and benefits are about normal for a startup

Cons

Frequent management changes and reorgs somehow keep making communication worse. Executive leadership seems more interested in sales than engineering. Key players lack agency.

4.0
Jan 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Interesting technology and work. Novel ML/Computer Vision research, challenging engineering in scalable infrastructure - Many smart and talented coworkers - Retail tech industry is heating up, growth opportunity is substantial. Technology has gotten sophisticated enough to make really interesting features possible - Market position is good, well funded among competitors (and well positioned as an alternative to Amazon for competing retailers eager to avoid them) - Benefits are impressive. Health/Dental/etc are top notch, 401k plan (though no match), generous PTO - Pay is good for a startup, though don't expect FAANG. Equity might make up for it, but hard to value. Option grants have permissive 10yr duration - Remote work is nice

Cons

- Inter-team communication needs improvement - Remote work can be challenging with long timezone differences - Balancing business needs and engineering capacity doesn't always work out. Sometimes have to crunch to make a demo or installation work on unrealistic timelines - Sometimes too many layers between leadership and IC's. Devolves into games of telephone I'm optimistic for the company's outlook. The workplace has improved during my time here, especially toxic people have been let go. Two new executives have been brought on, and so far they seem to be providing good guidance, structure, and direction to the company. It's not perfect of course, but there seems to be an earnest effort in improving in many aspects

5.0
Jan 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Super talented people, apparently in every team... .. and always willing to just help out. Incredible product already in the "s##t this is actually going to work" phase. "As long as you get it done we don't care if you do it from home or from Hawaii" culture which is real. Compensation is OK but not spectacular, so don't come for the salary. But fingers crossed for the equity to multiply! All founders (7) are at the office every day working with us and having lunch with us. All hands every two weeks, get (most of) your questions answered. Good work/life balance.

Cons

Some growing pains which are not so terrible. Catered food is not really good. Area not great - close to everything though, but not nice.

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